Discovering a city is always a fascinating adventure, a trip into space and time, discovering riches that in time have gained and important role in the becoming city.
For Taranto the adventure is much more fascinating as history has stratified secular memories, that have sunken into the roots of time. This Hellenic city, whose foundation may be considered coeval to that of Rome, yet which civilisation and power was much inferior, seminated vestiges and ploughed a path on which the successive civilisations were founded. The friendly geographical position, which drew Napoleon to decide on the reinforcement of the military port, strategic in the control of the Mediterranean, today assumes an important role in the Mediterranean basin. This city is considered as one of the major industrials of the south, brought forth by the launching of the new commercial port.
Therefore, a story born on the sea, whose origins are sunken in the legends, which attributes it's foundation to Taras, son of Neptune, God of the Sea, finds it's main resorse in the sea. It must have seemed a marvellous land to the Spartans who, arriving 3700 years ago, found a land surrounded by the two very prosperous seas.